Immunotherapy

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Immunotherapy is an array of medical strategies which use seek to use body's own immune system to achieve speciific therapeutic goals. In cancer immunotherapy, this often involves the stimulation of the immune system to attack and destroy tumors.

Contents 1 New Developments 2 Relevant and Related Technologies 3 Issues and Concerns 4 Milestones 5 Leaders in the field 6 External Links 7 References 8 Related links

[edit] New Developments

Recently, researchers at the Clinical Research Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle announced that they had successfully used a human patient's cloned infection-fighting T cells as the sole therapy to put an advanced solid-tumor cancer into long-term remission.

• Patient's CD4+ T cells eliminate melonoma

[edit] Relevant and Related Technologies

What work in other fields might influence progress?

[edit] Issues and Concerns

What are the social, environmental, legal and ethical concerns?

[edit] Milestones

What are the key milestones and have any already been achieved?

[edit] Leaders in the field

[edit] External Links

• Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma with Autologous CD4+ T Cells against NY-ESO-1 (NEJM)

[edit] References

[edit] Related links